Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME
(Courses effective from Academic Year 2015-16)

SYLLABUS OF COURSES TO BE OFFERED

Elective Course

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 Elective Papers on East Asia under Choice based Credit system for
Undergraduate students

Code No. of Internal

Title of Paper Theory Credit
Paper Assessment

The Historical Development of

EA-CBCS-501 75 25 6 (5+1)
Chinese Civilisation

Pre-Modern Japan (1603-

EA-CBCS-502 75 25 6 (5+1)
1868)
Colonialism and
EA-CBCS-503 Modernity in Korea 75 25 6 (5+1)

EA-CBCS-504 China’s Rise and East Asia 75 25 6 (5+1)

Modern Japan (1868-

EA-CBCS-505 1973) 75 25 6 (5+1)

Korean Peninsula after the

EA-CBCS-506 75 25 6 (5+1)
World War II

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 Elective Papers on East Asia under Choice based Credit system for
Undergraduate students

(EA-CBCS-501) The Historical Development of Chinese Civilisation

Course Description:

This course aims to familiarize students with the emergence and development of Chinese
civilisation in the imperial period. It aims to elucidate key features of China’s civilisation –
including its philosophy, government, culture, material development and social institutions –
within a broadly chronological framework. The approach adopted stresses both the unique
features of China’s civilisation as well as its interconnectedness with the outside world. The
projects could have a comparative study with India.

1. Emergence of Chinese Civilisation

John K. Fairbank, China: A New History (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press,
1992), pp. 4-25, 33-40.
Project: On a map of China, draw its major rivers and mountain systems. Also identify at
least two major archaeological sites, the ancient capital cities of Chang’an and Luoyang, and
the Great Wall of China.

2. Confucianism and Other Classical Chinese Belief Systems

W.T. de Bary et al., Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 1 (New York, Columbia University
Press, 1960), pp. 15-33, 48-51, 62-63.
Project: Identify the main Confucian, Daoist and Legalist masters, and the major literary
works identified with these three schools. Write 2-3 sentences on each.

3. The Formation of the Unified Chinese Empire

Valerie Hansen, The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600 (NY and London,
W.W.Norton & Co, 2000), pp. 96-149.
Project: Make a timeline of the most important Chinese dynasties.

4. Buddhism in China
Arthur Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History, (Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press,
1959), pp.108-129.
Project: Identify the main centres of Buddhism in China, the main schools of Chinese
Buddhism and the three most famous Chinese pilgrims who travelled to India. Plot the routes
by which they travelled to and from India.

5. Transition from an Aristocratic to a “Gentry” Society

John K. Fairbank, China: A New History (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press,
1992), pp. 83-87, 93-107.
Project: Write a 2-page description of the civil service exam system and its role in imperial
China.

6. The Mature Chinese Empire

Frederick Wakeman, “High Ch’ing”, in James B. Crowley (ed.), Modern East Asia: Essays in
Interpretation, (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970), pp 1-28.

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 Project: Make a map of the Chinese empire as it was by the middle of the nineteenth century.
Which territories were added through the conquests of the emperors of the last (Qing)
dynasty?

7. Social and Economic Change from the 11th to 18th Centuries

John K. Fairbank, China: A New History (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press,
1992), pp.88-92, and William T. Rowe, China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing (Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, 2009), pp.122-148.
Project: Make a chart showing some of the most important exports of China in this period
and trading routes connecting China with the rest of the world.

8. China and the World before the Nineteenth Century

Mark Mancall, “The Ch’ing Tribute System: An Interpretive Essay”, in John K. Fairbank
(ed.), The Chinese World Order (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968), pp. 63-
89.
Project: What was the relationship between tribute and trade in the relations of the Chinese
empire with other countries? Answer in about 600 words.

Additional Readings

 J.K. Fairbank, “Maritime and Continental in China’s History”, in Cambridge History

of China, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-27.
 Xinru Liu, The Silk Road in World History, (New York: Oxford University Press,
2010).
 Ichisada Miyazaki, China’s Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations in
Imperial China, (New York, Weatherhill, 1976).
 F.W. Mote, Imperial China, 900-1800, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1999).
 Paul Ropp (ed.). The Heritage of China, Berkeley & Los Angeles, (California:
University of California Press, 1990).
 Jonathan D. Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-His, (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1974).

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 (EA-CBCS-502) Pre-Modern Japan (1603-1868)
Course Description:

The course provides a broad outline of pre-modern Japan. It covers economic and social
organizations as well as growth of commerce and urbanization in Japan before the advent of
the western notion of modernity in the country. The paper would also like to bring in
condition of peasantry during the process of transformation. Intellectual turmoil and discourse
of the time and its implication for domestic and foreign policy of Japan would be taught to
enhance the comprehension of the era in students. Finally, the paper would also touch upon
the advent of modernity in Japan. The projects could have a comparative study with India.

1. Political Organization
Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 32-62
Project: The impact of the Sankin Kotai system

2. Economic organization
Sydney Crawcour, “The Premodern Economy” in Arthur E. Tiedemann, ed., An Introduction
to Japanese Civilization, (Columbia: Columbia University Press, 1974), pp. 461-486

3. Social Organization
Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 96-126.
Project: Trace changes in the status of samurai during the pre modern period.

4. Growth of Commerce and urbanization

Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 127-158.
Project: List the five most urbanized cities in the world in the eighteenth century and state the
reasons for their high degree of urbanization.

5. Impact of Economic Changes and Peasant protests

Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 223-256.
Project: Why did sericulture develop in pre modern Japan?

6. Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Pre-modern period

Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 63-95.

7. Intellectual currents: Confucianism, Western learning and National Learning

Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 187-222.
Project: Why was the spread of literacy so high in Japan compared to other countries during
the pre modern period?

8. Internal Crisis, External Pressures and Downfall of Tokugawa dynasty

John Whitney Hall, Donald H. Shively and William H. McCullough, eds., Cambridge History
of Japan, Volume 5, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 308-366.

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Additional Readings

 George H. Tsukahira, Sankin Kotai System: Feudal Control in Tokugawa Japan,

(Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1966).
 T.C. Smith, Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan, (Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1959).
 Chie Nakane and Shinzaburo Oishi, ed., Social and Economic antecedents of Modern
Japan, (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1990).
 Stephen Vlastos, Peasant Protests and Uprisings in the Tokugawa Period,
(California: University of California Press, 1986).
 Tetsuo Najita and Irwin Scheiner, ed., Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Period,
1600-1868: Methods and Metaphors, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).
 E. H. Norman, Japan’s Emergence as a Modern State (Toranto: UTB Distribution,
2000).

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 (EA-CBCS-503) Colonialism and Modernity in Korea
Course Discription:

The courese seeks to understand background and context of the colonisation of Korea by
Japan. It begins with learning about pre-colonial Korean context and discourse of modernity
along with the opening of Korea to the outside world. Whereas most of the scholars in Korea
were debating about Chinese and Japanese responses toward the Western influences, there
was another school in Korea which was looking to evolve idegenious response and
articulation to modernity and captialism. The course would also try to create an understanding
in students about the nature of colonialism in Korea by bringing in debate related to captialist
development as well as gender relations. The projects could have a comparative study with
India.

1. Decline of the Chosun Dynasty

Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History, (New York and London: W.W.
Norton and Company, 1997), Chapter 2, pp. 86-138.
Project: Chosun Society was divided in four classes. Describe all the four classes in brief.

2. Opening of ‘Hermit Kingdom’ and Sadaechui

Andre Schmid, Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, (New York: Columbia University Press,
2002), Chapter 2, pp. 55-100.
Project: With how many countries Korea signed Treaty of Friendship and Trade between
1876 and 1885.

3. Growing Japanese Influence and Korean Responses

Andre Schmid, Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919, (New York: Columbia University Press,
2002), Chapter 3, pp. 101-138.
Project: Write a short essay on important two newspapers of Korea during the early-20th
century.

4. Nationalism and Modernity Discourse

Henry H. Em, “Minjok as a Modern and Democratic Construct: Sin Chaeho’s Historiography
in Shin Gi-wook and Michael Robinson, eds., Colonial Modernity in Korea, (Cambridge,
Mass: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 336-362.
Project: Compare nationalism in Korea with India during the colonial period.

5. Origin of Capitalist Modernity in Korea

Dennis Mcnamara, “The Keisho and the Korean Business Elite,” Journal of Asian Studies,
Vol. 48, (May, 1989), pp. 310-323 or Shin Gi-wook, “Neither “Sprouts” nor “Offspring”: The
Agrarian Roots of Korea Korean Capitalism,” in Chang Yun-shik and Steven Hugh Lee, eds.,
Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea, (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 33-62.
Project: Describe pre-colonial capitalist developments in Korea.

6. Nature of Japanese Colonial Domination

Carter J. Eckart et. al., Korea Old and New: A History, (Seoul: Ilchokak Publishers for the
Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990), Chapter 15, 16, and 17, pp. 254-326.
Project: Japanese colonialism was most intense in Korea. What could be reasons for it?

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7. Cultural Hegemony and Colonial Discourse
Michael Robinson,” Broadcasting, Cultural Hegemony, and Colonial Modernity in Korea,
1924-1945,” in Shin Gi-wook and Michael Robinson, eds., Colonial Modernity in Korea,
(Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press), 1999, pp. 52-69.
Project: Write a short essay on the debate in Korea during the colonial period about
‘civilization’ and ‘race’.

8. Gender and Modernity in Korea

Kim Young-sun, “Gendered Korean Colonial Modernity: “Housewifeization” of Korean
Colonial Women and the Reconfiguration of Domestic Work”, The Review of Korean Studies,
Vol. 12, No. 4, (December 2009), pp. 205-233.
Project: Make of list of ten important personalities in Colonial Korea and was there any
female in them.

Additional Readings

 Michael E. Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey, ( Honolulu: University of

Hawaii Press, 2007).
 Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun, (NY and London: W.W. Norton, 1997).
 Chae-Jin Lee and Young Ick Lew, eds., Korea and the Korean War, (Seoul: Yonsei
University Press, 2002).
 Korean National Commission for UNESCO, ed. Korean History: Discovery of Its
Characteristics and Developments, (Elizabeth, NJ and Seoul: Hollym, 2004).
 Choe Yongho, Peter H. Lee, and Wm. Theodore de Bary, eds. Sources of Korean
Tradition, volume II, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
 Haggard, Kang, & Moon, Japanese Colonialism and Korean Development: A
Critique, World Development, Vol. 25, No. 6, (1997), pp. 867-881.

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(EA-CBCS-504) China’s Rise and East Asia

Course Description:

Since the end of the Second World War China’s rise has been the most significant event in
world history In East Asia alone China’s rise in the last years of the twentieth century has
changed economic, political and strategic relationships and raised concerns over the future of
the region in the new century. These debates and concerns have ranged across a variety of
issues but have concentrated on China’s foreign policy behavior, the definition of its core
interests in the region as well as its position as the driver of East Asian growth. However, the
recent rise of China and its influence in the region is only one historical phase whose echoes
can be found in earlier periods of China’s long history. This course will attempt, therefore, to
place China’s rise in historical perspective while looking at the meaning of its rise in the 21 st
century in the East Asian Region. The projects could have a comparative study with India.

1. Background and Legacy of China’s Rise

John K. Fairbank, "China’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective," in Foreign Affairs,
Vol. 47, No. 3 (Apr., 1969), pp. 449-463.
David Shambaugh, “Return to the Middle Kingdom? China and Asia in the Early
Twenty-first Century,” in David Shambaugh, ed. Power Shift: China and Asia’s New
Dynamics, (California: University of California Press, 2005), pp.23-47.

2. China’s Rise and the New Dynamics of East Asia International Relations
David Kang, “Hierarchy and Stability in Asian International Relations,” in G. John
Ikenberry and Michael Mastunduno, eds., International Relations Theory and the Asia
Pacific, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), pp. 163-189.
Wang Jisi, “China’s Changing Role in Asia,” in Kokubun Ryosei and Wang Jisi, eds.,
The Rising of China and a Changing East Asia Order, (Tokyo: Japan Center for
International Exchange, 2004), pp.3-23.
Project: Make a chart comparing the eighteenth and twentieth century global strategic
and economic powers.

3. China's economic rise: opportunity or challenge for East Asia?

Men Honghua, “ A sustainable Chinese Economy?” in Kokubun Ryosei and Wang Jisi,
eds., The Rising of China and a Changing East Asia Order, (Tokyo: Japan Center for
International Exchange, 2004), pp. 103-118.

4. China's rise and security in the Asian century

Jack S. Levy, “ Power Transition Theory and the Rise of China, “ in Robert S. Ross and
Zhu Feng, eds., China’s Ascent: Power, Security and the Future of International
Politics, (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2008), pp. 11-33.
Chien Peng Chung, "The Spratlys and Other South China Sea Island Disputes" Journal
of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 1999).
Project: Make a map of the South China Seas and the East China Seas with the
contesting territorial claims of different East Asian states.

5. Japan and the Rise of China

Akio Takahara, “A Japanese Perspective on China’s Rise and the East Asian Order,” in
Robert S. Ross and Zhu Feng, eds., China’s Ascent: Power, Security and the Future of
International Politics, (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2008), pp. 218-237.

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6. China and Northeast Asia
Jae Ho Chung, “China's ‘Soft’ Clash with South Korea: The History War and Beyond,”
Asian Survey, Vol. 49, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2009), pp. 468-483.
Kim Sung Chull, “North Korea’s Relations with China: From Alignment to Active
Independence” in Lam Peng Er, Colin Dürkop, eds. , East Asia’s Relations with a
Rising China (Japan: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2008), pp.101-145.

7. China and Taiwan Issue: conflict and integration

Richard Bush, “Taiwan Faces China, Attraction and Repulsion,” in David Shambaugh,
ed., Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics, (California: University of California
Press, 2005), pp. 170-187.

8. The Cultural impact of China’s rise

Wang Gungwu, “The Cultural Implications of the rise of China,” in Kokubun Ryosei and
Wang Jisi, eds., The Rising of China and a Changing East Asia Order, (Tokyo: Japan
Center for International Exchange, 2004), pp. 77-90.
Project: Chart the Sinic world in Asia.

9. China’s rise and regional integration

Jusuf Wanandi, “China and Asia Pacific Regionalism,” in Kokubun Ryosei and Wang
Jisi, eds., The Rising of China and a Changing East Asia Order, (Tokyo: Japan Center
for International Exchange, 2004), pp. 46-76.
Zhang Yunling and Tang Shiping, “China’s Regional Strategy,” in David Shambaugh,
ed., Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics, (California: University of California
Press, 2005), pp. 48-70.

10. The Future of East Asia: New paradigms

David Kang, “Getting Asia Wrong: the need for New Analytical Framework,”
International Security, Vol. 27, No. 4, (Spring 2003), pp. 57-85.
Project: Build three future scenarios based on the economic and political rise of China
in the 21st c entury.

Additional Readings

 Brantly Womack, ed. China’s rise in Historical perspective, (New York: Rowman
and Little, 2010).
 Rex Li, A Rising China and Security in East Asia: Identity Construction and
Security Discourse, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
 William A. Callahan, China the Pessoptimist Nation, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010).
 Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross, eds, Engaging China: The Management
of an Emerging Power, (London: Routledge, 1999).
 Ming Wan, Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation,
(Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2006).
 David C. Kang, China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia, (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2007).

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 (EA-CBCS-505) Modern Japan (1868-1973)
Course Discription:

The course would begin with the study of process and characterstics of Meiji Restoration,
which is considered to be the dividing line between pre-modern and modern Japan.
Implications of Meiji reform in various spheres of Japan such as political organisation,
economic change and social transformation. The enquiry about the intellectual current behind
the modernisation project would also be discussed along with its implication for a powerful
Japan which ventured into the project of imperialism in Asia. The course would try to
inculcate in students an indepth understanding about the emergence of Japan as economic
superpower in the region based on the changes which were brought out by the modernity and
reform of this era. The projects could have a comparative study with India.

1. Meiji Restoration; Nature and Characteristics

Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 333-370.
Project: What were the carryovers from the Tokugawa period that enabled Japan to
modernize rapidly?

2. Political Reorganization
Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 371- 413.

3. Economic Changes
Peter Duus, ed., Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008), pp.385-435

4. Social Transformation
Peter Duus, ed., Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008), Chapter 12.

5. Japanese imperialism
Peter Duus, ed., Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008), pp. 271-314.
Project: Do you agree with the dissenting note of Justice Pal?

6. Intellectual currents
Peter Duus, ed., Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008), pp. 654-710.

7. Occupation Reforms and Contemporary Japan

Marius B. Jansen, Making of Modern Japan, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2000), pp. 675- 714.
Project: Gender equality in modern Japan.

8. Rise of Japan as an Economic Superpower

Peter Duus, ed., Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008), pp. 494-540.
Project: Why should one look at Japan’s economic development in a long term perspective
from the Meiji Restoration onwards and not confine to the period after World War II?
Additional Readings

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 Nagai Michio and Miguel Urrutia, ed., Meiji Ishin: Restoration or
Revolution, (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1985).
 Thomas C Smith, Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan:
Government Enterprise, 1868-1880, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1955).
 Donald Shively, ed., Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture, (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1971).
 Robert Scalapino, The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan, (California: University of
California Press, 1977).
 Michael Schaller, American Occupation of Japan: The Origins of cold War in Asia,
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
 Takafusa Nakamura, The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its Development and
Structure, (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 1995).

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 (EA-CBCS-506) Korean Peninsula after the World War II
Course Discription:

The courese is an attempt to understand the division of Korean peninsula during the World
War II. The division led to the emergence two different states which were based on different
ideas of political and economic organisations. The contest and hostility between the two states
of the peninsula resulted in the Korean War immediately after their birth and the rivalry has
been continuing till now. The course would seek to teach two different trajectories of
development models adopted by North and South Koreas. North Korean socialist experience
got trasformed according to Juche idea, which was interpreted in an interesting manner.
Similary, South Korean experiment with capitalist democracy deteriorated to authoritarian
rule and then a long struggle for democratisation. The course would try to understand inter-
Korean relations also by looking at the North Korean nuclear issue as an important
repurcations of their rivarly and contest. The projects could have a comparative study with
India.

1. Division of Korea
Michael J. Seth, A History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present, (Maryland: Rowman and
Littlefield Publishers, 2011), Chapter 11, pp. 305-338.
Project: Make a map of Korean Peninsula and identify De-militarized Zone (DMZ) along the
38th parallel.

2. Formation of North and South Korea

Bruce Cumings, The Origins of the Korean War, Vol. II, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1990), pp. 185-236 and Charles K. Armstrong, “The Nature, Origins, and Development
of the North Korean State” in Samuel S. Kim, ed., The North Korean System in the Post-Cold
War Era (New York : Palgrave, 2001), pp. 39-63.
Project: Get the South and North Korean constitutions and identify three most important
features of both of them.

3. Origins and Nature of the Korean War

Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History, (New York and London: W.W.
Norton and Company, 1997), Chapter 5, pp. 237-298.
Project: Make a poster of major phases in the Korean War with maps.

4. North Korea: Juche and the Consolidation of the Kim Il-sung

Dae-Sook Suh, Kim Il-Sung: The North Korean Leader (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1988), pp. 137-157.
Project: Find a picture of Juche Tower in North Korea and what is its significance?

5. Political Turmoil and Economic Development in South Korea

Kim Hyung-a, “The Eve of the Military Coup” in Kim Hyung-a, Korea’s Development under
Park Chung-hee: Rapid Industrialization (London: Routledge Curzon, 2004), pp. 39-65.
Project: Write an essay on South Korean leader Chang Myun.

6. Divergent Authoritarianisms in the 1970s

Adrian Buzo, “Setbacks to Socialism, 1970-1980” in Adrian Buzo, The Guerilla Dynasty,
(London: I.B. Tauris, 1999), pp. 80-104 and Hyung Baeg Im, “The Origins of the Yushin
Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled” in Byung-kook Kim & Ezra F. Vogel, eds., The Park Chung-
Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press,
2011), pp. 233-261.
Project: Write a brief biography of South Korean leader Kim Dae-jung.

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7. Inter-Korean Realtions
Charles K. Amrstrong, “Inter-Korean Relations in Historical Perspective,” International
Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, (2005), pp. 1-20.
Project: Make a chart of major milestones in the Inter-Korean relations.

8. North Korea’s Nuclear Programme

Bruce Cumings, North Korea: Another Country, (New York and London: The New Press,
2004), Chapter 2, pp. 43-102.
Project: In North Korean map, identify probable locations of nuclear facilities.

Additional Readings

 Han Sung-joo, The Failure of Democracy in South Korea, (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1974). Kihl Young-hwan, Politics and Policies of Divided Korea:
Regimes in Contest, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984).
 Koo, Hagen, ed., State and Society in Contemporary Korea, (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1993).
 Michael J. Mazarr, North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Non-proliferation,
(London: Macmillan, 1995).
 Don Oberdorfer, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, (London: Addison-
Wesley, 1997).
 Park Han S., North Korea: Ideology, Politics and Economy, (Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice Hall, 1996).
 Soong Hoom Kil and Chung-in Moon, eds., Understanding Korean Politics: An
Introduction, (New York: State University of New York Press, 2001).

It is expected that on completion of courses on East Asia, the students will have
the following options to choose from:
1. Pursuing higher studies in China, Japan , Korea and Taiwan
2. Joining the Masters programme in East Asian Studies offered by the
Department of East Asian Studies
3. Taking up internships in Think Tanks
4. On the basis of knowledge of the languages of East Asia, student could also
work in private and public sectors.

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